Anti Gun Dr and Author Says Those Who Use Guns for Self Defense Are “Wusses” – My Response

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According to rjfw.org, Dr. David Hemenway is the author of Private Guns, Public Health, which demonstrates how a public-health approach—historically applied to reducing the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption—can also be applied to preventing gun violence.

Hemenway issued the following quote during an interview on a Harvard School of Public Health Webcast.

The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I’d like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren’t anybody to be looked up to. They’re somebody to look down at because they couldn’t defend themselves or couldn’t protect others without using a gun.

Really? So I the dozens of elderly people we’ve reported on over the last 18 months who used a gun to defend themselves from younger attackers are all “wusses”.